Re: Getting Email from 7 acounts with getmail every 20 seconds
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:00:44 -0400
Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:52:03 -0400
> Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:19:01AM -0400, Orestes leal wrote:
> > >
> > > Recently i've setup a mail service for my 7 users through my and pop3
> > > server and getmail to get the email from every account from my main
> > > pop3 server, everything ok but i can't setup getmail to get email from
> > > the 7 accounts of my main server at the same time, and because that I
> > > do that at hand (for now), I need a way to make that getmail download
> > > and deliver the all 7 acounts in the server to the local accounts
> > > every 20 seconds, thanks.
> > >
> > > NOTE: Sorry for my *awfull* english.
> > >
> >
> > Hello Orestes,
> >
> > FYI, please wrap your lines at 72.
> >
> > To clarify your english:
> >
> > Your email is sitting on a pop server and you want to configure getmail
> > to retreive that mail every 20 seconds?
> >
> > I would think that a pop session would take longer than 20 seconds to
> > complete. Why do you need it every 20 seconds?
>
> Depends, of course, on the volume.
Ok, let's say that every 1 minutes, the volume it's very low.
>
> > On the other hand, I've never used getmail; I use fetchmail.
>
> Getmail wants to be run as a cron job; it isn't designed to run as a
> daemon.
How do I setup getmail to do this? a cron job that get al emails from the 7 accounts in the server, any help it's well received, thank you so much.
>
> > Doug.
>
> Celejar
Orestes.
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